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Everyday Positivity: 365 Ways to a Content Life
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Inspirational quotes, tips and exercises for staying positive every day of the year. Positivity isn't something you are – it's something you do. It's not just a trait that people have naturally, but an active decision to seize the day and look for opportunity in the mundane. Including quotes and affirmations from inspiring individuals, as well as useful tips for boosting your mood, Everyday Positivity is the essential guide to helping you achieve daily optimism. Keep this little book close by for the perfect reminder to always look on the bright side. About the Everyday series Get to grips with a single subject in small, manageable steps with the Everyday series. From inspirational quotes to professional tips, the short daily entries fit perfectly into the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
Everyday Positivity | 167x140mm | Paperback | 10/09/2020 | £14.99 | 384 pages | Pyramid | 9780753734254
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Moon Power A conscious guide to tuning into the energy and rhythm of the moon
By Merilyn Keskula The Moon is not just a static piece of cosmic matter in our night sky, but a dynamic living being. Throughout her journey around the Earth which takes about 29.5 days she shows us her different faces, growing from a silver sliver in the sky to an awe-inspiring illuminated sphere, before returning to darkness again. She changes colour and moves through a variety of star constellations reflecting the energies at play each day.
Moon Power | Z (210x149) | Paperback | 06/08/2020 | ÂŁ10.99 | 160 pages | Aster | 9781783253401 Author Biography: Merilyn Keskula was born in Estonia, but currently lives in London where she runs Mylky Moon Lab, an evolving R&D project that helps next generation leaders and companies to return to the alignment with natural rhythms and cycles, consequently growing their businesses in a sustainable way. Merilyn is also the founder of Keskula Digital, a boutique digital marketing agency for conscious businesses and creatives.
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The Moon gives us a map to a cyclical way of living; the blueprint for a life that breathes in harmony with the rhythm of the natural world around us. She teaches us about the importance of embracing quiet and reflective times as much as celebrating the times we experience life in its fullest expression. She informs us when to plant the seeds of our dreams and when to take stock and harvest what we have been growing. What will you discover about yourself when you tune into the moon?
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Sacred Geometry Discover the majestic flow of the universe and how its symbolic architecture can awaken higher energies.
By Jemma Foster Sacred Geometry exists all around us in the natural world, from the unfurling of a rose bud to the pattern of a tortoise shell, the sub-atomic to the galactic. A pure expression of number and form, it is the language of creation and navigates the unseen dimensions beyond our three-dimensional reality.
Sacred Geometry | Z (210x149) | Paperback | 06/08/2020 | ÂŁ10.99 | 160 pages | Aster | 9781783253418
Since its discovery, humans have found many ways stone circles, mandalas, labyrinths, temples- to call upon this universal law as a way of raising consciousness and communicating with a divine source. By becoming aware of the dots and lines that build the world around you, Sacred Geometry will teach you how to bring this mystical knowledge into your daily practice.
Author Biography: Jemma Foster is a multi-disciplinary practitioner of plant and vibrational medicine. She is the founder of the botanicla studio Mama Xanadu, which hosts plant workshops and supper clubs. Through her own research and study with the Academy of Sacred Geometry, Jemma fell in love with this language of the universe and the myriad ways in which it has been spoken across cultures and across time
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Sacred Places An illustrated guide to the world and its sacred wonders.
By Clare Gogerty Wellness travellers are seeking transformative experiences - wellness is, by nature, a journey and a quest. The concept of transformative travel is about finding experiences through trips that shift perspective and allow digital detoxing, connection with oneself, nature, communities and a sense of the bigger picture in life.
Sacred Places | SSN (246x189) | Hardback | 03/09/2020 | ÂŁ20.00 | 224 pages | Aster | 9781783253357 Author Biography: Clare Gogerty is an author, journalist and editor with considerable experience in consumer magazine publishing. She edited Coast magazine for six years and has also edited the National Trust Magazine and Grand Designs magazine. Currently she is homes and gardens editor of The Simple Things magazine. She combines this with writing books - including the National Trust's Book of the Coast and Beyond the Footpath: Mindful Adventures for Modern Pilgrims (Piatkus 2019) - and travel and lifestyle journalism.
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Sacred Places is a stunning new coffee table exploration for seekers of unusual and enlightening destinations, for both armchair travelling and as inspiration for future journeys. The book will be particularly focused on experiences, in addition to a full description of the place. For example, plant medicine ceremonies in South America, walking the Camino Way, Stonehenge on the winter solstice, wild swimming in Iceland's sacred hot springs and silent retreats. Entries also introduce the history and geography of the place, significant stories, dates to visit, myths, legends and ceremonies.
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The Little Book of Kaizen The art of making powerful and lasting change through gradual self-improvement
By Suzannah Lee A beautifully designed introduction to the Japanese concept of 'Kaizen' - the art of self-improvement. Kaizen is a term that has long been used in the business world to emphasise constant development and transformation. But Kaizen has the power to transform all areas of life. Learn how even the smallest steps can help us to form new habits, build confidence and break down our in-built resistance to life's challenges.
The Little Book of Kaizen | NB (147x105) | Paperback | 20/08/2020 | ÂŁ7.99 | 96 pages | Gaia | 9781856754293
Rooted in 2,000 year old wisdom, Kaizen reinforces the benefits positive change, one step at a time. With over 70 simple prompts and exercises to help you improve your health, relationships and wellbeing or save money and excel at work, everything you need to know to utilise Kaizen every day is here.
Author Biography: Suzannah Lee is a researcher and philosopher, born in the Midlands and raised in the Middle East. She lives with her life partner in London in a house that requires continuous improvement.
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Crystal Craft How to choose, use and boost your crystals, with 25 creative projects to display and wear.
By Nicole Spink Are you looking for a way to boost the energy of your crystal collection? Do you love the idea of beautiful crystal-adorned homeware and jewellery, but hate the marked-up prices? Or are you just searching for a way to bring the power of crystals into your life? If so, Crystal Craft is for you.
Crystal Craft | U (235x190) | Paperback | 01/10/2020 | £15.99 | 144 pages | Ilex Press | 97817815778 Author Biography: Nicole Spink – also known as Love Luna Life – has always felt closely connected to crystals, and she now works as a qualified crystal healer and crystal workshop leader in London, UK. She has also been trained in reiki and light language. Nicole has been creating beautiful one-of-a-kind crafts with crystals for five years, and teaching others to do the same in her classes.
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Crystal Craft is a practical guide that will inspire you to live a more conscious and empowered life with crystals and creativity. Ranging from simple, no-toolsrequired beginner projects to more advanced crafts that include macramé and making jewellery, this collection of 25 crystal craft ideas has something for every crystal lover. Make each piece deeply personal by choosing the crystals that speak to you, and design beautiful, intention-filled presents for your friends and family. Projects include: - Affirmation picture frame - Plant pot - Pendant - Earrings - Gift bag - Trinket box - Journal - Infused essential oils - Bath potion
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A Quick Guide to CBD The essential guide, written by CBD specialist Dr Julie Moltke.
Dr Julie Moltke Discover how CBD can help you with conditions including anxiety, insomnia and chronic pain – and how it will improve your overall health and happiness too. Cannabidiol, better known as CBD, is a natural remedy with a range of incredible health benefits. CBD is everywhere – and no wonder, as it has been found to help conditions including anxiety, insomnia and chronic pain. A Quick Guide to CBD cuts straight to the facts, telling you all you need to know in easy-to-understand terms.
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CBD specialist Dr Julie Moltke explains... - The many benefits of using CBD, - CBD science for absolute beginners, - How and when to take CBD, - Finding the right dosage for you.
Author Biography: Dr Julie Moltke is a medical doctor and has spent most of her career focusing on mental health, stress management and the medicinal cannabis industry. She believes in personalized medicine and seeing every client individually with a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. She is the scientific advisor for The Drug Store and founder of the London-based health, wellness and cannabis science publication, Dosage. Dr Julie prescribes medicinal cannabis at Clinic Horsted in Denmark and she is a public speaker and a yoga and mindfulness teacher. She also runs a retreat centre at her farm in southern Sweden.
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Open By Frankie Bridge “I hope my book will showcase the importance of being open in a shut off world, the need to talk about the good days as well as the bad days, so we can all start to have open and honest conversations about how we really are, not how we think we should be.” FRANKIE BRIDGE In OPEN, Frankie Bridge, ex-The Saturdays, opens up about her ongoing journey from breakdown to breakthroughs and through self-loathing, hospitalization and self-acceptance. Part narrative exploration, part practical guide, this book will help you to understand the importance of talking and helping each other in an imperfect world.
Open | Royal | HB | 06/02/2020 | £18.99 | 256 pages | Cassell | 9781788401708 Author Biography: Frankie Bridge is best known as one fifth of ‘The Saturdays’ and outside of music has established herself as a TV Presenter & Digital Influencer. Frankie became a Mind ambassador after opening up about her experiences of anxiety, depression and panic attacks, after her hospitalisation in May 2012. Having initially dealt with these issues in silence, Frankie has been keen to support Mind in making sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone. Recently, she’s been a key player in helping to launch the Mind partnership with Heads Together, as well as lending her support to Time to Talk Day. Frankie is launching her podcast focusing on mental health in September.
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It will also feature practical guidance and advice from the psychologist and psychiatrist who pulled her back from the brink along with their notes and conversations throughout her mental health journey. By opening up about her battles, Frankie wants to help a generation of people to be more open about their mental health. Speak out. Ask for help. And be helped. It’s a very simple four-letter word, but one of the hardest words to put into practice, this book will help people to understand the importance of talking out and helping each other.
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Secret Yoga Club Self-empowerment through the magic of yoga. By Gabrielle Hales ‘This globe-trotting group promotes a mindfulness practice that continues off the mat and into the sonic realm’ - Vogue ‘Secret Yoga Club is a big deal, just don’t tell anyone’ Huffington Post ‘A wonderful experience’ - Financial Times ‘The Yoga Guru’ - British Vogue Secret Yoga Club |HB| Approx 100 colour photographs | 06/02/2020 | £20.00 | 224 pages | Aster | 9781912023653 Author Biography: Gabrielle has been teaching yoga for seven years and her offering has slowly evolved with her practise. She teaches a slow, mindful flow, prefaced with pranayama to draw people to the innerworld and soften more deeply into themselves. As many yogis discovered thousands of years ago, she too observed how her body hoarded habits and memories and that movement and breath work was the most effective way to release these tensions, to celebrate the body and awaken the mind. Gabrielle started Secret Yoga Club to gather a community of people who are interested in discovering themselves through creative, embodied experiences. SYC supports its ever-growing family of practitioners and seeks to evolve endlessly and introduce different healing practices to its expanding community of beautiful, inquisitive people. W W W.O C T OP U S B O OK S .C O.U K
Yoga is an intimate, alchemical process in which you discover your own physical, sensual and emotional landscape. Yoga is how you sing yourself back to life. It’s in the moments that you witness the sublime wisdom of the body. It’s when you find the ocean in your breath, the stillness in your mind and experience yourself as the force of life. In Secret Yoga Club, Gabrielle Hales introduces the yoga practices and rituals that she has found therapeutic, lifeaffirming and liberating over a decade of teaching yoga and co-creating unique, multidimensional experiences with a community of healers, artists and musicians. As Gabrielle has discovered, when you meet yourself on the mat, you have an opportunity to heal the trauma hidden within your body, release the tension in your overworked mind, experience emotion as energy, expand into pleasure and intimacy, and when needed - rest and restore.
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Labyrinth Meditations A collection of beautifully illustrated labyrinths for mindfulness, meditation and centring. By Madonna Gauding A labyrinth is a beautiful metaphor for spiritual and personal transformation, and many meditation practitioners see it as a symbol of the journey we take in life. By following a path that is meandering yet purposeful, we visit our own centre, and then back again out into the world - with the new-found wisdom we have gained. Including 10 guided meditations and 30 unique labyrinths, Mind Lab will release you from the stress of day-to-day life and help you to discover inner peace, wisdom and strength. Labyrinth Meditations | G11 (210x170) | PB |30 illustrated labyrinths | 05/12/2019 | ÂŁ10.00 | 96 pages | Pyramid | 9780753733905
Author Biography: Madonna Gauding has been a student of Buddhism for over 12 years and is a practitioner of martial arts. She is the author of The Meditation Bible, World Mandalas, Six Keys to Buddhist Living and Working with Meditation. Location: St Louis, Missouri, USA.
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Shape Up With Pilates The ultimate guide to sculpting, strengthening & streamlining your body. By Lynne Robinson ‘The Queen of Pilates’ -The Times ‘Lynne is the high priestess of Pilates. I trust her implicitly’ Sophie Dahl
Shape Up With Pilates | 250x210 | Colour photography throughout | PB | 23/01/2020 | £19.99 | 224 pages | Kyle Books | 9780857835895 Author Biography: Lynne Robinson is one of the world’s most respected Pilates teachers. She is the founder of Body Control Pilates, which is seen as an international benchmark for safe and effective teaching. Her bestselling books include The Pilates Bible, Pilates for Life and Pilates for Pregnancy. She has also produced highly popular DVDs. In demand internationally, she frequently lectures at conferences throughout the world and has taught Pilates in countries as varied as the US, Japan, South Africa, Thailand and Australia. www.bodycontrolpilates.com
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Shape Up with Pilates is an innovative regime of 20 targeted step-by-step workouts, clearly explained and illustrated, and designed to give you a streamlined torso that will retain its natural curves. Organised into 4-week programmes of varying lengths it includes: 7 x 20-minute workouts per week 5 x 30-minute workouts per week 3 x 45-minute workouts per week Plus advice on which exercises to do for particular problem areas, such as the waistline and tummy, bottom, thighs, upper arms or upper back, tips on how to incorporate exercise into your life, the benefits for mental health and wellbeing, and how to improve your diet. In just 3 months, Lynne promises you can change your shape and sculpt parts of your body you had long forgotten. You will feel the benefits within the first few weeks and others will soon start to notice the changes as you begin to look taller and slimmer. Within three months you will both look and feel like a new person!
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Breathe Well More than 70 simple breathing exercises, tips and advice for a healthier, happier life By Aimee Hartley
Breathe Well | Illustrations throughout |PB 06/02/2020 | £12.99 | 192 pages | Kyle Books |9780857838025 Author Biography: Aimee Hartley is a Certified Transformational Breath® Facilitator and yoga teacher and teaches breath work and yoga classes in the UK, Australia and Bali. She has worked with corporate clients including Amazon Fashion, Philosophy, Rebel Kitchen and Depop and teaches at The Natural History Museum once a month to 200 people. She currently offers private and corporate Transformational Breath® sessions and workshops in London and runs retreats around the UK. She has appeared in The Times, Tatler, Elle, Evening Standard, Women’s Health, Grazia and the Telegraph. She writes weekly breath exercises and shares research and articles on breathing via The Breathing Room’s Facebook page @aimeebreathing.
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We breathe around 17,000 times a day - so it’s something that we can all improve for better health and wellbeing - no equipment or fancy fitness gear necessary. Aimee’s simple and accessible exercises are designed to fit into your life - from 2 minutes in the shower to 5 minutes at your desk to be at your best before an important meeting. Introducing breath basics and detailing why breathing properly is so important for health and wellbeing, Aimee’s simple, practical exercises easily fit into a busy day. Organised into sections reflecting how we spend our time from work to sleep and eating to relationships - there are breathing exercises for the office, including how to calm your nerves before a big pitch; how our breathing has been affected by technology and how to counteract ‘tech apnea’, alongside breathing for better relationships, such as exercises to help clear the air after an argument. Also including breaths to help you perform at your exercise peak and enhance digestion, alongside practical tips such as the top 10 plants to purify the air in your home.
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The Energy Secret Practices and rituals to unlock your potential for healing happiness. By Jane Alexander
The Energy Secret | Z (210x149) | Illustrations throughout |HB | 05/03/2020 | £14.99 | 192 pages | Kyle Books | 9780857838087 Author Biography: Jane Alexander is an acknowledged expert in the field of natural wellbeing. She is the author over 20 books on the subject, including the best-selling Spirit of the Home, The Detox Plan, The Five Minute Healer and Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living. Her books have been translated into over 16 languages (including the US, Germany, Spain, Norway, Italy and Hungary). Jane wrote the ground-breaking Self column in the Daily Mail for many years and has been a contributor to a huge number of national newspapers, women’s magazines and health titles. She has a regular column in Natural Health magazine.
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Energy runs through all of life linking us with other people, our homes and nature and the universe, but we don’t really use it to our benefit. Understanding and directing our vital energy can give life more meaning and purpose and help with our health, relationships and mental wellbeing. The book is divided into four sections: - Body (including breathing, exercise and the energy of food) - Emotional (connecting to other people) - Environmental (how to cultivate a positive atmosphere at home and work and how to connect with the natural world) - Spiritual (using visualisation and ritual to connect to the ultimate energy source, how to manage the dark energy of judgment and depression, and finally, looking at death and where that energy goes). Energy healing treatments include reiki, chakra healing, acupressure and acupuncture, but with Jane’s simple techniques, there’s so much you can do at home to clear your energy paths and find harmony and joy in daily life.
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Skin Healing Expert Holistic, plant-based remedies and recipes for calm, clear skin. By Hanna Sillitoe
Skin Healing Expert | U (235x190) | Colour photography throughout | HB |14/05/2020 | £19.99 | 192 pages | Kyle Books | 9780857838438 Author Biography: Hanna Sillitoe is an author and entrepreneur. She gained a wide online following when she started sharing her journey to health and clear skin over her blog and Instagram, and now has followers from all over the world who follow her plan and credit her with curing their skin complaints. In August 2019, Hanna appeared on BBC’s Dragon’s Den to pitch her new skincare range, and received offers of investment from all five dragons. She is now working with Peter Jones and Tej Lalvani on her new products, which will be launching in shops across the UK later this year. www.mygoodnessrecipes.com @mygoodnessrecipes (Instagram)
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For more than 20 years, Hanna Sillitoe suffered from severe psoriasis, eczema and acne. They dominated her life and shattered her confidence. When her doctor told her the only remaining treatment to try was a chemotherapy drug, Hanna took matters into her own hands and started researching a natural solution. She changed her lifestyle dramatically and cut out caffeine, alcohol, added sugar, dairy, wheat and nightshades. Five years on, Hanna is free from all skin complaints and has gathered a huge online audience of people following her guidelines and healing their skin. Following the success of her first book, Radiant, and her new skincare range, for which she won support from Peter Jones and Tej Lalvani on BBC’s Dragon’s Den, this new book shows you how to apply Hanna’s skincare advice to your everyday life with small, achievable changes that yield long-term, sustainable results. From delicious recipes to heal you from within to luxurious homemade skincare and guidelines on sleep, stress, exercise and self-care, Skin-Healing Expert contains everything you need to take control of your health and achieve calm, clear skin.
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The Wellfulness Project A guide to using mindfulness as the basis for lasting transformation. By Ali Roff Farrar
The Wellfulness Project | U (235x190) |HB | 05/03/2020 | £16.99 | 208 pages | Aster | 9781783253210 Author Biography: Ali Roff is Editor-at-Large and a columnist at Psychologies magazine, where she has interviewed world-renowned spiritual gurus, psychologists, doctors, and wise women and men including Deepak Chopra and Gabrielle Bernstein. She is passionate about combining western sciences of psychology, neuroscience and coaching with the Eastern philosophies of meditation, mindfulness and yoga, to cultivate true wellness of body and mind. In addition to the BSc hons degree she holds in Psychology, Ali is a qualified ‘200hr Yoga Alliance Certified’ teacher and will shortly qualify as a Mindfulness teacher and expert.
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Mindfulness isn’t just meditation - it can be used everywhere and at any time. When we begin to apply mindfulness to our lifestyle as a whole, we begin to build a more conscious relationship with the things we eat, the spaces we spend time in, the way we move our bodies and the stories we tell ourselves. The concept of ‘Wellfulness’ means using mindfulness for greater wellness in body and mind. Through the practice of conscious acceptance and conscious change; being mindful is at the core of wellness, be it within food, movement, values, rituals, habits, mindset, our inhabited spaces or our relationships. The Wellfulness Project is a manual for mindful living, combining personal experience, mindfulness theory and ritual tools to create a practical guide to achieving a more harmonious relationship with our wellness and wellbeing.
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Let’s Do This! How to use motivational psychology to change your habits and change your life. By Andy Ramage
Let’s Do This! | Demy |216 x 135|PB | 26/12/2019 | £12.99 | 208 pages | Aster | 9781783253289 Author Biography: Andy is a former professional footballer with a Masters in Positive Psychology. He now combines work as a successful city commodities broker in London with running the hugely successful AF motivational site One Year No Beer. Ten years ago Andy began studying well-being as he was materially successful but stressed out, overweight, unfit, unhealthy unmotivated and unhappy. Bewildered by his own lack of drive he began to study motivation. This lead to an open university degree and later a masters degree in positive psychology and coaching psychology. He also became a master practitioner of NLP (training with John Grinder) and a mindfulness awareness coach. Now in his final year of his Master’s in Positive Psychology, his special area of research is motivation. W W W.O C T OP U S B O OK S .C O.U K
The second Friday in January is known as Quitter’s Day, the day that on average our New Year resolutions begin to fly out of the window… this year, it’s going to be different. Let’s Do This! is the motivation playbook for any type of personal change, from losing 10lbs or stepping up in your career to running a half-marathon. Forget willpower, which is a finite resource that rarely lasts until lunchtime and trying not to eat marshmallows / aka delayed gratification. The key to any successful behaviour change is the motivation to keep going once you’ve started. This is an unapologetically positive book that shows why and how to master motivation using a simple but powerful process and a 28-day masterclass. Discover the Six Streams of Positivity that will keep you on the straight and narrow, refine your resolution and master your motivation through simple daily rituals. You’ll see off your saboteurs (I can’t be bothered, I’ll start on Monday), master your mornings and even learn to love failure (it’s all part of the process).
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Pause How to press pause before life does it for you. By Danielle North ‘Danielle is a beguiling leader - a refreshing mix of pragmatic and soulful. She facilitates with a light hand and an engaged heart’ - Queen of Retreats
Pause | B Format | PB | 02/01/2020 | £8.99 | 192 pages | Aster | 9781783253449 Author Biography: Danielle North has a long work history as a successful executive coach in the corporate industry, working with top-level executives at companies such as HSBC, McKinsey Unilever and SAP. She has more than 13 years experience working with leaders in 20 different countries; and spent 3 years living and working in Asia, where she set up a pioneering coaching company and an award winning change management consultancy. After learning that goals and ambitions could be just as happily and successfully achieved when simply allowing the body and mind to pause, she adapted her coaching style with both personal and corporate clients to flow rather than fight against the ups and downs of life. Find out more about Danielle at www.lifebydanielle.com
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Pause is an important message ready to be heard. We check our phones an average of 221 times a day, we have apps that help us sleep and remind us to be mindful while we secretly measure our success in ‘likes’. Time is our luxury and yet with technology we are never able to leave the office, even when we aren’t there. The fear of missing out makes us rush from one thing to the next, not really taking any of it in. Pause allows you to finally put yourself, your feelings and your intuition first. Learning to say no, doing the things that make you feel good, and not doing the things that don’t make you feel good - these are not self indulgent, listening to your own heart and wisdom doesn’t make you selfish, slowing down to appreciate your life isn’t lazy or unambitious. It is an ancient message, but still just as strong; when you pause to take care of yourself and your own life, you become the person you’re meant to be. This book gives you the space and the practices so that you can learn how to benefit from the power of the pause. It uses nature, creativity and your inner spirit to allow the energy to flow freely once again. There are exercises to ground you, give access to your intuition, to breathe deeply and allow your monkey mind to settle. It gives you time to explore what is big in your life right now, to know deep down what matters. It opens you up, allowing you to freely experience all the pain, the joy and the twists and turns of life. It gives you back your courage, your fire and your connection.
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The Five Powers The Five Powers is a toolkit for personal transformation. By Stephen Fulder MINDFULNESS + TRUST + ENERGY + SERENITY + WISDOM
How can we rise above stress, anxiety and frustration? How do we perform a restart? Is it possible to radically transform our daily life? How can we invite deepening meaning and freedom into our lives? For many, the gateway to the Buddhist teachings is Mindfulness. And Mindfulness is indeed one of the Five Powers that are regarded as the original teachings of the Buddha: Trust, Energy, Mindfulness, Serenity, and Wisdom. The Five Powers |HB| Some watercolour illustration | 28/05/2020 | £16.99 | 304 pages | Aster | 9781783253517 Author Biography: A graduate of Oxford University, Dr. Stephen Fulder has a PhD in molecular biology and was a lecturer at London University. He is an expert in herbal and complementary medicine, on which he has published fourteen books. Stephen has been involved in dharma practice since 1975. He has spent years in India, and has been guided by a variety of teachers from India, Burma, and the West. He has been teaching mindful meditation for a quarter of a century, mostly in Israel but also abroad, and leads many retreats, courses, and classes annually, especially for advanced practitioners. His latest book, Awakening in Daily Life, spent four months as the number one best-selling instructional book in Israel, and he is also known for his informal talks, ‘Buddha in the Bar’. www.stephenfulder.com W W W.O C T OP U S B O OK S .C O.U K
The Five Powers work together to amplify and empower each other. Each is required to achieve a complete and harmonious whole. They have been described as five horses working together to skillfully draw the carriage of our being to states of content and liberation. With stunning artwork throughout by the acclaimed artist Alessandro Sanna, The Five Powers is the perfect guide and inspiration for those seeking happiness, contentment, and love in daily life.
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The Power of Letting Go How to drop everything that’s holding you back. By John Purkiss
The Power of Letting Go | Demy |216 x 135 | PB 06/02/2020 | £12.99 | 192 pages | Aster | 9781783253630 Author Biography: John Purkiss studied economics at Cambridge University and has an MBA from INSEAD, where he was awarded the Henry Ford II Prize. He began his career in banking and management consultancy and has invested in several high-growth companies. John was a partner with Heidrick & Struggles prior to co-founding Purkiss & Company, where he recruits chief executives, finance directors and other board members. He has lived and worked in France, Belgium and the USA. John speaks French, German and Spanish. John has travelled widely and explored several traditions, including Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Kabbalah and Sufism. Over the past 20 years, John has become a regular speaker, in the UK and internationally. www.johnpurkiss.com
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If you learn to let go, you will learn to live. When you let go, you live intuitively with a great deal more ease and flow because you are no longer attached to things being a certain way, to being a certain person or always being right. What a relief. The irony is that when you feel stuck in any part of your life - career, relationships, purpose, health or money - it becomes increasingly hard to let go - you cling on for dear life just at the moment you need to take a leap of faith. In The Power of Letting Go, John Purkiss combines both the why and the how to let go, with excellent practices that help convert the spark of hope and desire into action. There are four stages to letting go: Be Present and Enjoy Each Moment Let Go of the Thoughts that Keep You Stuck Let Go of the Pain that Runs Your Life Surrender and Tune into Something Far More Intelligent than Your Brain
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